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The Ross Bridge Renaissance Golf Resort and Spa was designed to be a luxury space resembling a castle in Scotland. It is nestled in the rolling hills of the Shannon/Oxmoor Valley next to the Robert Trent Jones Golf Course. Ross Bridge is also the first destination resort built near the Birmingham area.
The use of old world building components coupled with state of the art technology has proven to be both distinctive and intriguing. The skin of the resort is a combination of stacked stone and colored stucco, giving the appearance that the building could have been there for centuries.
The roof has a mansard system that gives the building the look of steep rooflines that have the functionality of a flat roof.
The building also has two large turrets and a large bell tower. When guests arrive at Ross Bridge they can enter the resort at either of the two large porte cocheres. The front entrance at Ross Bridge also has battered walls just like those used in castles in Europe.
The resort sits on a Robert Trent Jones Golf Course and each of the guestrooms and public spaces have a unique view of the golf course and its many bodies of water.
The surrounding mountains make the area feel separate from the city. Guests will enjoy the sounds and sights of a rock waterfall fed by a gravity waterwheel mounted on an authentic pump house. The waterfall appears to flow down the hillside into the outdoor pool.
Doster Construction provided the owner with extensive pre-construction services and then entered into a construction management contract to start the project. Doster planned and managed the entire project. The Doster project team worked to build this resort within budget and on time for its opening to the public.
Key Facts
| Owner: Alabama Real Estate Holdings, Montgomery, Ala. |
| Contractor: Doster Construction Co. Inc., Birmingham, Ala. |
| Cost: $56 million |
| Architect: Goodwyn, Mills & Cawood, Birmingham, Ala. |
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